Exploring the van der Waals atom-surface attraction in the nanometric range

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Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Fichet, M ^a   Dutier, G ^a   Yarovitsky, A ^a,c   Todorov, P ^a   Hamdi, I ^a   Maurin, I ^a   Saltiel, S ^a,d   Sarkisyan, D ^b   Gorza, M P ^a   Bloch, D ^a   Ducloy, M ^a  

^a Centrale de Proximité en Nanotechnologies de Paris Nord   (France)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICAL RESEARCH   (Armenia)

^c LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

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EID: 79051471015     PISSN: 02955075     EISSN: 12864854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/77/54001     Document Type: Article

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